Blair and Bush: The special relationship

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke questions the use of anxiety inducing warnings from the FBI of imminent terrorist attacks, the partiality towards singing the national anthem, and Tony Blair's popularity ratings in America.

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Fri 12 Oct 200121:00

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Fri 12 Oct 200121:00
BBC Radio 4

The Bush Jr Years (2001- 2004)—Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
The 9/11 attacks and the US’s “war on terror” defined George W Bush’s first term.

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